James Ross, on 28 December 2011 - 02:35 PM, said:
Alrighty then.
For the record, I couldn't care less if this or that proposal makes things easier to code. All I care about is whether any idea is going to be better or worse for the end users and / or content providers as they're the ones who will have to live with it for n years to come. I can see this proposal probably does address the issue of downloaded packages having a chance of being complete. Whether it would be used in that manner is plausible but not assured. The likelihood of duplication appears to me to be greater than what Kuju's design created. The proposal tells me nothing about anything else other than it is simply different than the Kuju design.
As for "Virtual Files" the string appears nowhere else in these forums.
If someone besides James wants to explain anything about this... here, via PM, via e-mail, feel free.